Why oligarchs use London to air their dirty laundry

Cold and remote, the industrial plants in Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and Sayanagorsk are a world away from London’s swanky new Commercial Court. Yet a ferocious struggle for the proceeds of the former Soviet Union’s vast mineral wealth is still being played out on Fetter Lane two decades after it began, yielding a £250 million bounty for some of the City’s top lawyers.